Analysis 5 The Market for Strike Missiles Through 2018

摘要

Another year passes, and another war is fought. This time the participants were Georgia and Russia. In August 2008, Tbilisi launched a military campaign to retake South Ossetia, a breakaway region north of the Georgian capital. Initially, the Georgian attack was successful, with the South Ossetian militia quickly routed. However, the tables soon turned in the wake of massive Russian military intervention.rnA strong Russian ground force moved from Chechnya into South Ossetia supported by numerous combat aircraft. Georgian forces were soon pushed out of South Ossetia and Russian troops occupied a large area of Georgia proper. This war did not see the massive use of precision-guided munitions (PGMs) that characterized U.S. operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, much to the detriment of the Russian forces.